Writer and illustrator Jim Di Bartolo joins DOOMED with Matt Binder for a discussion about the problem with billionaires, the discourse around the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO, his upcoming graphic novel "F*ck Billionaires" and more! (Episode from the 2/12/25 livestream show). Check out Jim's graphic novel: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/f-ckbillionaires/f-ck-billionaires - Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 272
DOOMED host Matt Binder breaks down how Elon Musk and his group of DOGE "hacker" kids are going through our data as they ransack federal government agencies one by one. (Episode from the 2/5/25 livestream show). Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Feb 18, 2025•55 min•Ep. 271
DOOMED is back! And unfortunately so is President Donald Trump. On this episode of DOOMED from the Inauguration Day livestream, DOOMED host Matt Binder discusses what Trump did on his first day, what happened when TikTok went dark and then came back online, how Trump is taking credit, and much much more! (Episode from the 1/20/25 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Jan 28, 2025•59 min•Ep. 270
Matt interviews Sam Drzymala of Progressive Victory to answer some questions listeners have had about the progressive group seeking to connect livestreamers and their audience with on-the-ground organizing and canvassing. Plus, more about the Jamaal Bowman canvassing event on June 22 and June 23! Find out more and sign up here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/new-york-canvassing-event?souce=binder (Episode from the 6/12/24 livestream show.)
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 269
On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, Matt breaks down the crackdown on pro-Palestine college students in early May, a day after NYC Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD raided Columbia. (Episode form the 5/1/24 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
May 30, 2024•58 min•Ep. 268
Last week, on April 24, DOOMED host Matt Binder interview independent journalist Talia Jane on his livestream show about her on-the-ground coverage of the pro-Palestine, anti-war encampments at Columbia and NYU campuses and how they were spreading across the country. Here's that interview with a real first-hand account of what these encampments were like and what the student protesters were doing, uploaded to this feed just one day after police and college admins cracked down on encampments at C...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 267
Director of Development for American Muslims for Palestine and Palestinian-American community organizer Mohamad Habehh joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the latest Gaza and the changing public opinion on Israel - Palestine. (Episode from the 2/13/24 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 266
On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, Matt breaks down the recent migrant hysteria...something that only seems to happen in an election year. Plus, we take a look at a disturbing Fox News clip featuring right winger Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels assaulting someone live on the air with Sean Hannity. (Episode from the 2/7/24 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Mar 23, 2024•50 min•Ep. 265
Vince McMahon resigned from WWE (and its parent company, TKO) for good after disturbing sexual assault allegations. How did he force his way back into the company to begin with? Who knew what? Is the toxic culture in WWE and across pro wrestling facing a reckoning? What happens next? Journalist David Bixenspan joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss. (Episode from the 1/31/24 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Mar 07, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 264
MrBeast made a quarter of a million dollars by uploading a video to Elon Musk's X and in doing so revealed just how rigged the monetization system is. Scam Economy host Matt Binder walks through all the details of X Monetization, the little known X Amplify program, how Elon Musk and company pushed the famous YouTuber's content into social media feeds, and how basically no other creator can replicate MrBeast's earnings on the platform. (Episode from the 1/24/24 livestream show.) Support the show:...
Feb 06, 2024•55 min•Ep. 263
Eoin Higgins joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss CES, the biggest annual tech conference, and their experience at the event live in Las Vegas. What was the worst tech? Most dystopian? Was there good tech? And what the latest tech trends say about the state of the industry. Also, a discussion about the results of the Iowa Caucus and how the GOP Primary was determined well before that. (Episode from the 1/17/24 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 262
Rayyvana of TYT joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss George Santos and his Cameo selling business, John Fetterman's most recent ridiculousness, the discourse around Palestine in the U.S. media, plus right wing YouTube and Twitch streamers. (Episode from the 12/13/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 261
Elon Musk sues Media Matters! On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, Matt breaks down X / Twitter's lawsuit against Media Matters and how it shows that Musk just doesn't understand social media. (Episode from the 11/21/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 260
On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, we break down the Hamas attack in Israel and Israel's bombing in Gaza. We discuss how Israel - Palestine is, in the words of Michael Brooks, "not complicated." (Episode from the 10/10/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 259
Conspiracy theorists thought that the emergency alert system test broadcast on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, was going to activate 5G or nanochips in our bodies and turn people who got the COVID-19 vaccine into zombies. There's other stuff too, you'll have to listen to DOOMED host Matt Binder explain! Plus, Matt interviews Justin, the Reddit user whose posts went viral discussing how his QAnon conspiracy theorist landlord shut down the power in his building due to those very conspiracy theories. S...
Oct 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 258
Amanda Moore joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss her time pretending to be a far right devotee and what she discovered while being accepted by its members. Moore breaks down who she met at the events she attended, the range of encounters she experienced, and how the far right reacted to her "infiltration." (Episode from the 8/29/23 livestream show.) Check out Amanda's peice in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/soc... Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Sep 30, 2023•59 min•Ep. 257
Kayla Gogarty, Research Director at Media Matters for America, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Rumble, the right-wing online video platform which has partnered with Fox News to host the first Republican primary debate for the 2024 presidential elections. Kayla will discuss Rumble, what kind of content it typically hosts, the far right and QAnon conspiracy theorist influencers who stream there, and much more. (Episode from the 8/22/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreo...
Aug 23, 2023•44 min•Ep. 256
Michael E. Hayden of the Southern Poverty Law Center joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to break down the trial and conviction of Douglass Mackey, the far right social media influencer who went by the name Ricky Vaughn, who was convicted for his "scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote." Hannah Gais joins the show later on as well! (Episode from the 4/19/23 livestream show). Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 255
Bennie Carollo joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss why she left The Young Turks, Cenk and Ana's recent anti-trans comments, being a trans ally, why being explicitly for trans rights is the *correct* and winning position, how transphobia is deeply routed in white supremacy, and much, much more. Check out Bennie's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6DiIQWb0DE . (Episode from the 7/11/23 livestream show) Suppot the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Jul 19, 2023•2 hr 6 min•Ep. 254
The battle between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg officially began on Wednesday, July 5th as Meta launched Threads by Instagram, it's Twitter competitor app. On this DOOMED and Scam Economy livestream crossover episode, Matt Binder breaks down the Threads app, the enshittification of Twitter by Elon Musk, how this past week's actions by Musk at Twitter which blocked logged out visitors from accessing Twitter and rate limited logged in users' daily tweet alottment may actually be Musk's worst move...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 253
Writer Egor Kotkin joins DOOMED with Matt Binder live from Russia to discuss what happened over the weekend with Wagner Group and the foiled coup attempt in Russia. Egor breaks down what it was like to be in Moscow, how the Russian people were dealing with what was going on, what Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was thinking, and much much more. Follow Egor on YouTube and Twitter: @EgorKotkin as well as on Substack at http://egorkotkin.substack.com . (Episode from the 6/26/23 livestream sho...
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 252
Madeline Peltz of Media Matters for America joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss her experience at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit in Texas, where right wing influencers "tell young girls to give up their dreams". (Episode from the 6/13/23 livestream show.) Check out Madeline's report here: https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/career-women-right-wing-media-tell-young-girls-give-their-dreams-young-womens Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Jun 20, 2023•58 min•Ep. 251
Activist, filmmaker, and longtime listener of the show Rem aka missheathen joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss her confrontation with right winger Maj Toure over his anti-LGBTQ rhetoric at the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus Tour. (Episode from the 5/17/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 250
Lance of The Serfs joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to breakdown his recent appearance on Tim Pool's show. Lance and Matt compared notes about each other's personal experience in the compound, Tim Pool's debate style, the right's bizarre obsession with trans people, and more! Plus, Matt explains how Argentina Twitter became enraged with him and Lance sticks around to take some listener calls. (Episode from the 5/9/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
May 24, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 249
It's a DOOMED / Scam Economy crossover episode! Host Matt Binder breaks down what he's been so busy with over the past few weeks: a series of reports on Twitter that drove Elon Musk to gift/punish him with the Twitter Blue checkmark of shame. Matt breaks down what Twitter Blue is, why it's so controversial, how Elon Musk marketed the roll out and caused his own mess, the removal of the legacy verified checkmarks, @dril and the #BlockTheBlue campaign, celebrities having Twitter Blue subscriptions...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 248
Angelo Carusone of Media Matters for America joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Fox News' sudden separation with its biggest host, Tucker Carlson. What happened? Why did Rupert Murdoch suddenly want to rid his network of its biggest star? How did the Dominion lawsuit play into this? How did Murdoch's own love life factor in? How much did Tucker Carlson's extremist and white supremacist rhetoric matter? What's next for Fox News? What's next for Tucker Carlson? (Episode from the 4/25/23 live...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 247
Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi break up? Twitter vs. Substack? The end of the Twitter Files? DOOMED host Matt Binder breaks down exactly what went on between Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi which ended their relationship and likely contributed to the end (or near end) of the Twitter Files. (Episode from the 4/12/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Apr 17, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 246
Donald J. Trump has been arrested. On this episode of DOOMED with Matt Binder, Matt runs down how the big day in Manhattan went and then reads through Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's press released, the indictment, and the statement of fact as we find some interesting nuggets of info along the way. (Episode from the 4/4/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 245
Lance of The Serfs joins the show to discuss what's happening with the supposed upcoming indictment and arrest of Donald Trump? Will it actually happen? How are his supporters taking it? Plus: A series of AI images depicting a fake Trump arrest went viral. What does this mean for SOCIETY!? And what actually is this artificial intelligence? (Episode from the 3/22/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 244
DOOMED with Matt Binder takes a look at the "cancellation" of Dilbert creator Scott Adams and the important context surrounding the Rasmussen poll that caused Adams to call Black Americans a "hate group" that white people should stay away from. (Episode from the 2/28/23 livestream show.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder
Mar 14, 2023•59 min•Ep. 243
